Bulletin Board Ideas

We study four tribes of Native Americans throughout the school year. As one of our final projects, we make dream catchers. They always come out so nicely!

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This is our empty Giving Tree in September. As the students see each other doing good deeds, they write up "a leaf". On the leaf, they are to write the deed they saw being done, and what pillar of character education it's showing. As an incentive to everyone, I give the person who wrote the leaf a "Bonus Buck" (classroom money), as well as the person who was caught doing something good. An example of what would be written on the leaf would be the following:

I saw Jerry picking up garbage from the floor. This is showing respect for our classroom.

This is our Giving Tree in full bloom!!!

Each color of the rainbow has a metaphor written on it. For example, "Yellow is a bright shiny sun glimmering on a summer's day."

This bulletin board is done for Martin Luther King Day. Each student gets a "crayon" and colors it their favorite color. I take their pictures to put on the tips of each crayon. On the crayon itself, the students write "a dream" they have for the world.

This is the poem we read and discuss before putting together the "box of crayons" bulletin board.

This is one of my favorite bulletin baords! Before Thanksgiving, the students and I brainstorm all of the people in our school who we are thankful for. Then each student selects one person to write a thank you letter to, and I take their picture with that person for the board. The staff in our school love this!

On the last day of school, my students come up with a list of "handy tips" for my next year's class. They then trace their hands and write their tip on it. It's an easy bulletin board to start the year with.

This is just a basic "work to be proud of" board. In the middle you might see what looks like a collage. It's actually a puzzle. I have the students decorate a puzzle piece on the first day of school, and then they must put it together as a group. This teaches them about cooperation, and gives me some information on who are the shy and outgoing personalities.

This is another September bulletin board. We used to have Hawaiian pen pals, so it fit our theme perfectly! See below to get the printable Hawaiian children.

I had my students research snowflakes one year, and then they made and decorated a snowflake with a written fact on it.